IDE

The definition of IDE

Loosely speaking, a diskformat sometimes used by
MS-Windows,
Mac
OS, AmigaOS, and (rarely)
UNIX. EIDE is enhanced IDE; it is much
faster. Generally IDE is inferior (but less expensive) to
SCSI, but it varies somewhat with
system load and the individual IDE
and SCSI components themselves. The quick rundown is
that: SCSI-I and SCSI-II will almost always outperform
IDE; EIDE will almost always outperform SCSI-I and
SCSI-II; SCSI-III and UltraSCSI will almost always
outperform EIDE; and heavy system loads give an advantage
to SCSI. Note that although loosely speaking it is just a
format difference, it is deep down a
hardware difference.